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Here’s a list of places that offer psychedelic truffle retreats in Amsterdam, where these seem to be legal. Truffles are effectively the same as magic mushrooms. Only an approx $400-500 round trip flight from many places of the USA.
Psychedelic Society in the Netherlands
Truffles Therapy in the Netherlands
Synthesis Retreat in the Netherlands
Conscious Bachelorette in the Netherlands
Inward Bound in the Netherlands
GuidedTripping in the Netherlands

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Overall, edibles last for approx 5 hours. You’ll peak 2 hours after ingesting to 4 hours after ingesting.
You’ll start to feel mostly normal after 5-6 hours after you ingested. Though, with doses above 20mg you may feel high for longer. So if you’re wondering how long an edibles high lasts, there’s your answer.
In summary: Edibles can last for 4-10 hours, with after effects lasting for another 6-12 hours.

Overall, edibles take around 2 hours to fully kick in. You’ll tend to start feeling them between 30 minutes and 2 hours in.
More info A graph from a 1980 research paper showing how long you’ll stay high for, and how long edibles take to kick in:
In this experiment, the edibles had fully kicked in at around 2 hours after ingesting.1
Don’t redose until you’ve waited 2 hours If you’re on a full stomach, it may take 1.

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Takeaways and notes from research into possible solutions for the opioid epidemic. Goal: Massively reduce opioid overdoses
Most promising: Medication assisted treatments Harm reduction specifically focused on avoiding overdoses: avoid mixing, get naloxone, don’t use alone (look into — how much would this cost, would it work, are there other examples of harm reduction working in the US for other drugs, for these drugs, or in other countries where it worked?

We do not endorse the acquisition and use of illegal drugs. If you make the choice to use psychedelic drugs, please do your research.
We don’t have a comprehensive page here, but these are some guides we think are high quality.
If you’ve chosen to use DMT, we’d like to note that it may be quite valuable to read/watch all of the below resources before using.
Video - DMT Safety Guide by PsychedSubstance, 15 mins

Please consider this entire page as a draft, and unreviewed.
What is Kava?
Kava is a good alternative to alcohol.
Kava can provide a similar buzz to alcohol, without the confusion, and without the calories.
Reverse tolerance: Kava has a reverse tolerance – you’ll feel the effects more the second time.
Note, Kava would be more for the social inhibition features of alcohol – so it would work well for a chill party, or relaxing at a house, but less well for a club/other event where you want a similar effect to a decent dose of alcohol.

A list of supplements that may help reduce acute anxiety, and therefore help prevent a bad trip on LSD or shrooms 1. CBD “Pretreatment with CBD significantly reduced anxiety, cognitive impairment and discomfort in their speech performance, and significantly decreased alert in their anticipatory speech.”1
How to take:
Make sure that it’s 100% CBD and that there’s no THC. THC causes paranoia in many users, and is not recommended to be used with psychedelics.

What is Salvia? Salvia is a plant with short-lasting hallucinogenic effects.
1. Just because it’s legal doesn’t mean you’ll have a good experience In a survey, 18.5% of people who had used Salvia said their life would be better off if Salvia didn’t exist. For comparison, this was similar to amphetamine, where 17.7% of users said their life would be better off if amphetamine didn’t exist.
2. Dosage is really important.

Are you currently having a bad trip? See this section.
What to do if someone is tripping on psychedelics and becomes anxious, to avoid it turning into a “bad” trip Mild anxiety: “The appropriate first response is to provide strong personal support and reassurance (O’Brien, 2006).” Interact with them in a “comforting and reassuring manner.”1 If anxiety escalates:1 You “should convey a solid sense of security and calm, while empathizing with what may be an incredibly intense and unpleasant experience.

Psychedelic Therapy Centers If you’re looking for a legal way to do psychedelic therapy in the meantime before psilocybin is approved by the FDA, here’s a list of places that offer truffle (truffles are essentially the same as magic mushrooms) retreats in Amsterdam, where these seem to be legal. Only an approx $400-500 round trip flight from many places of the USA.
Psychedelic Society in the Netherlands
Truffles Therapy in the Netherlands

👨‍🌾 Guide for preparation as a trip sitter Recommended trip sitter preparation material
Watch the video ‘How to TripSit’ Read TripSafe’s entire guide Read this guide Watch the video How to Work With Difficult Psychedelic Experiences - MAPS Read the Zendo Project Training Manual or watch the Zendo Project Training Video The trip sitter and the participant should prepare together to minimize the risk of fear or anxiety

How to take Shrooms (Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms) the TripSafe way 🍄👽 Thank you to Matthew Johnson, Bill Richards, and Roland Griffiths, for all of their scientific research on these subjects.
Look before you leap trip.
No drug use is perfectly safe. Shrooms appear to be safer than most drugs.1
This content has been created strictly for harm reduction purposes, and you should note that the only way to be perfectly safe using shrooms is to not take them at all.

1. Are shrooms bad for you? A research paper ranked psilocybin mushrooms as the third safest drug (Nutt et al). All drugs can still be harmful under certain circumstances.1 A separate study also found that magic mushrooms were the drug with the lowest rate of emergency room visits after use, lower than alcohol, and even marijuana.2
From the page on Shrooms.
2. Magic mushrooms are not associated with “disease to any organ or system” The biggest risk to organs of magic mushrooms is eating a poisonous mushroom that isn’t actually a psilocybin mushroom.

1. Acid is a street name for the compound LSD. LSD is a hallucinogenic drug - so acid is a hallucinogenic drug.
2. Acid’s effects include visual distortions and a “dreamlike” state for ~8-14 hours The effects of acid include:
Rapid and sometimes extreme changes in mood1 Visual disrotions and illusions1 Time perceived as going faster or slower than normal1 “A detachment within the self regarding one’s mind or body, or being a detached observer of oneself”1 Altered sense of reality1 See more on LSD/Acid’s effects.

Summary and why care? “This inquiry … indicates that with proper precautions [LSD and mescaline] are safe when given to a selected healthy group.”1
“An analysis of [occasional complications] suggests that with the application of certain safeguards many of the side effects might have been avoided.”1
“A large number of previous human trials indicate that LSD can be safely administered within a research or psychotherapeutic setting.”2
“if you look at the literature with clinical use, both with psilocybin and with LSD, you see that those drugs can be administered safely in research settings.

Factors that influence LSD’s effects “The prior emotional or internal state of the individual, or “set”1 “The state of the environment or surrounding, or “setting”1 Short-term effects See also: LSD’s side effects
Positive effects during use:
Joy/intense happiness2 Peace/harmony2 Neutral effects during the drug experience:
Rapid and sometimes extreme changes in mood1 Visual disrotions and illusions1 Time perceived as going faster or slower than normal1 “A detachment within the self regarding one’s mind or body, or being a detached observer of oneself”1 Altered sense of reality1 See the first few images on this page for an accurate depiction of low to moderate acid dosage visual effects.

How to take LSD (Acid): A TripSafe Guide 👽 Thank you to Matthew Johnson, Bill Richards, and Roland Griffiths, for all of their scientific research on these subjects.
Look before you leap trip.
Emphasizing safety is important.
These guidelines are designed to maximize the chance of lasting positive benefits, and to minimize the chance of any challenging or “bad” trips.
Remember, no drug use is perfectly safe. But you can take LSD in a safer manner if you’re going to use it anyway.

The Complete Guide to LSD, by TripSafe Overview Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is a common recreational drug. It is also commonly known as acid. LSD is usually consumed on small pieces of paper called blotter.
LSD has been taken by about 25 million Americans at least once, and 1.5 million Americans in the past year, based on 2015 numbers.1
We do not endorse the acquisition and use of illegal drugs.